[Klug-general] Motor system on GPIO Raspberry Pi

[Nathan Friend]

James - Raspberry Pi running a motor, demo at Klug please.

Nathan.


On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 8:50 PM, Paul Lenton <lentonp at gmail.com> wrote:

>  Sorry, to clarify:
>
> Type "cd /home/pi/Desktop/Python\ programs" to make LXTerminal understand
> that there's a space in the path.
>
> I was typing the reply on my phone and hit send before I meant to, so
> thought I'd clarify =)
>
> Cheers
>
> On 20/10/13 20:45, james snyder wrote:
>
>
>   Re: GPIO
>
> Some new students need help running a GPIO system on a model B raspberry
> pi running Raspberian Linux, so I am forwarding this message to our KLUG
> group mailing list on their behalf....
>
>  "We have connected the motor and battery to the GPIO RPi .
> We have saved a Python program (developed using the Python Shell) in :
>
> /home/pi/Desktop/Python programs
> If we click on: Python programs, we see the file: motor.py
>
>  The problem is
>
>  when we open LXTerminal we type:
>  cd /home/pi/Desktop/Python programs (is where our motor.py is)
> We get the error message
> "No such file or directory"
>
>  We have formatted another Raspberian SD Card from scratch.
>
>  In order to make our motor to work we need to use LXTerminal to find a
> directory where we have saved our file, and once we are in the directory
> we have to run the command: sudo python motor.py  to start our motor
> but LXTerminal says "No such file""
>
>  Without actually seeing the system, based on the above log, any thoughts
> on what the problem is here?
>
>
>
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